‘Three Acres And A Cow’ connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with Brexit, fracking and our housing crisis via the Enclosures, English Civil War, Irish Land League and Industrial Revolution. The show draws a compelling narrative through the people’s history of England in folk song, story and poem.

Part TED talk, part history lecture, part folk club sing-a-long, part poetry slam, part storytelling session… Come and share in these tales as they have been shared for generations.

Doors Open 6.30PM. Performance 7:00pm followed by a Q&A with Michael, and Elizabeth Allen, granddaughter of a First World War Conscientious Objector. Til 9pm.

More info and Book tickets at: https://this-evil-thing.eventbrite.com

Home Front/Front Line was published in 2013 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Iraq war.

"...a brave, beautiful and deeply unsettling way of making the reader look again at long-familiar events, as though the mother of Wilfred Owen or Edward Thomas had kept a verse diary during the first world war." Morning Star

"(It) seems that WWI wasn't the only war to produce poetry of grandeur." The Journal

There will be information about the history of the building and Quakers in Edinburgh, craft activities for children, some research on Quaker conscientious objectors in WWI, and the white poppy wreath made by local Quakers as part of the collateral damage exhibition. Refreshments will be on offer.

Thou who art the innermost Spirit of my being,
Art thou pleased, Lord of my Life?
For I gave to thee my cup
Filled with all the pain and delight… (Rabindranath Tagore, ‘Jiban Debata’, 1895)

Fiona Pearson was a senior curator there for 25 years, working in the fields of prints and drawing, painting, scripture and for 10 years was also the Paolozzi Curator. She grew up as a Quaker but left in 2005 doubtful of her pacifism and no longer certain that organised religion was the only way.

Our theatre space hosts drama, music, discussion and graphic art both serious and comic. Historical, political, social, personal issues are addressed. Our values of equality, peace, integrity and simplicity influence our theatre programme selection and the way we run the venue.

This will be a dissertation by Les Bremner, who intends to show that the roots of Christianity and Spiritualism are identical and that Atheism does not exist.  If this is proven to our own satisfaction, our spirituality can be confidently enhanced.  Les’ talk will be based on his forthcoming book, A Tapestry of Faith and Evidence – Christianity, Atheism, Spiritualism.

In this presentation, Gary Kidgell will outline the philosophical approach expounded by what is known as the ‘wisdom teachings’. He will demonstrate the value of this particular ‘model’ of creation, and of the human psyche, in relation to the process of spiritual transformation.  This assists our understanding of what occurs in our consciousness when we are treading the ‘spiritual path’.